I know the world (or at least the subset of the world that entertains itself with social media and online photo sharing) has special days of the week. Who doesn't want to spice up their otherwise mundane Thursdays with embarrassing or personally revealing pictures of themselves from years past, a la Throw Back Thursday? Until I looked it up, (#hashtag for every day of the week), I didn't actually know that I could have been chronicling this blog and my Facebook and twitter accounts in a much more systematic way all these years.
But considering that I'm a pretty poor photographer and that I haven't historically carried a camera NOR REMEMBERED TO USE IT IF I LUGGED IT ALONG in the first place, I don't have a huge ready stock of photos to share. Did I mention that my elegant and precise system of filing all my hard copy, pre-digital photos involves packing boxes and my personal promise that one day I was going to scan, label, add snappy captions, and place them all in acid-free photo albums, EMPHASIS ON "ONE DAY"?
But I do like the idea of a little structure (Katherine Luquette, stop snickering!) and I am crazy in love with maps, so I am implementing Map-It-Monday. Here's the first installment, which is a visualization of the ratio of bars to grocery stores in the United States. It's easy to see Wisconsin. Which Texas dot do you think represents Brazos County?
You can explore other Nathan Yau's similar maps of other countries here: http://flowingdata.com/2014/05/29/bars-versus-grocery-stores-around-the-world/.
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